National emergency. President trump forging ahead with his threat to declare a National Emergency to save the border wall. Tonight, were learning that the white House Counsel is scrambling to try to make a case that there is a National Emergency. Emergency means urgent, sudden threat, right . It does not appear that this is the slam dunk that the president led us to believe. I havent done it. I may do it. I may do it. But we can call a National Emergency and build it very quickly. Hmm. Well, even members of trumps own party are not sure. Senator john cornyn, the second highest republican ranking senator says the president declaring a National Emergency would only complicate efforts to end the shutdown, which is now on day 17 and that is the second largest shutdown in American History already. Im confident that he could declare a National Emergency, but what that means in terms of adding new elements to this, in terms of Court Hearings and litigation that may carry this on for weeks and
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